296 Report on the Field and Feeding Experiments at Woburn. 
The previous crop was barley ; clover had not been sown 
among the barley. The land was prepared for drilling on 
March 25th and 26th, and on April 1st four plots were drilled 
with spring tares, at the rate of 8 pecks per acre, and the re- 
maining four on the same day with white peas (Sangster's 
No. 1), also 8 pecks per acre. Both came up well and podded 
capitally. It was intended at first to feed off the tares by sheep, 
but the crop promising to be so heavy it was felt that there 
would be, as with the swedes, a risk of returning too much to 
the soil and producing over-fertility. Accordingly the tares 
as well as the peas were harvested, the peas being cut on 
August 3rd and 4th, and carted on August 21st, the tares cut 
on August 20th, and carted on August 28th. The results are 
given on Table V. (p. 295). 
The produce, it will be observed, fully realized the expecta- 
tions formed from the growing crop. It was therefore not 
likely that any great difference of manurial value between the 
cotton-cake and the maize-meal would as yet show, though in the 
plots 5, 6, 7, 8, and also in 3 and 4, there is an indication of it. 
Table VI. — Produce of Swedes and Mangolds in 1886 
(Rotation No. 4). 
Swedes. 
Plots. 
i-Acre. 
Manure per Acre. 
Produce per Acre. 
Roots. 
Leaves. 
1 
2 
3 
4 
("3 cwt. superphosphate (after wheafl 
|3 cwt. superphosphate (after wheatl 
13 cwt. superphosphate (after wheat! 
1 with artificial equivalent of cotton- > 
3 cwt. superphosphate (after wheat! 
< with artificial equivalent of maize- > 
Tons cwt. qrs. lbs. 
4 13 8 20 
8 15 2 4 
7 15 2 20 
7 9 1 16 
Very much blighted and 
therefore not weighed. 
Mangolds. 
5 
G 
7 
8 
iNo manure (after wheat — cotton-'l 
j No manure (after wheat — maize- 
fNo manure (after wheat with artifi-'l 
\ cial equivalent of cottou-cako duiif^)/ 
|No manure (after wheat with artiti-1 
\ cial equivalent of maize-meal dung)/ 
17 8 1 2 
19 1 1 20 
19 18 3 14 
18 13 2 14 
Tons cwt. qrs. lbs. 
3 6 3 24 
3 10 3 24 
3 4 1 10 
3 9 14 
